Latest Commercial Auto Headlines

All the headlines from our Commercial Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Loss Ratios Improve in 45 States Nationwide

Nov 22 2004 // The commercial auto market went through some tough times. After years of deteriorating loss ratios, things have definitely turned around. What does this mean for the marketplace? In some cases, prices have started to...

Progressive Now Offering Commercial Auto in N.H.

Oct 22 2004 // As previously reported by Insurance Journal, The Progressive group of companies has begun offering commercial auto coverages in New Hampshire through more than 200 agents. The product is being marketing under its new Drive...

Mass. Approves Commercial Auto Market Reforms

Sep 20 2004 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has approved plans to implement a limited servicing carrier program for the state’s commercial auto residual market as proposed by Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers...

Commercial Auto

Aug 9 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services (BTIS) announced a new online commercial auto program intended for up to four vehicles with a maximum GVW of 45,000 lbs. Classes of business include...

Commercial Auto/Truck Physical Damage

Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Safety Net Insurance Marketing Corporation is offering a new commercial auto/truck physical damage and high value, substandard private passenger physical damage program. Dollars: Up to $1 million...

TEXAS OKAYS ISO COMM. AUTO TOOLS:

Jun 7 2004 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has cleared the way for insurers to make filings immediately using Insurance Services Office Inc.’s (ISO) commercial auto advisory information. According to ISO, its advisory...

Texas Approves Additional ISO Commercial Auto Tools

May 21 2004 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has cleared the way for insurers to make filings immediately using Insurance Services Office Inc.‘s (ISO) commercial auto advisory information. According to ISO, its advisory...

Philadelphia Insurance Agents Get Real Time Commercial Auto Services

Apr 29 2004 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies (NASDAQ: PHLY) has launched AutoIDweb, a new service on its AccessPHLY Agent Web Portal that provides agents access to their commercial auto policies with the ability to add/delete vehicles...

Mass. Streamlines and Equalizes Agents’ Access to CAR’s Commercial Auto High Risk Operation

Apr 17 2004 // The Massachusetts auto insurance industry is streamlining the way it handles high risk commercial auto risks by reducing the number of servicing carriers involved in handling them and equalizing access to the residual...

Public Auto

Apr 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Glendale, Calif.-based general agent KF&B Inc. announced a new public auto program. The program underwrites charter and sightseeing buses, limousines, tour vans, and various types of shuttle vans....

Package and Commercial Auto

Mar 22 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....

Package and Commercial Auto

Mar 22 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....

Package and Commercial Auto

Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....

Package and Commercial Auto

Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....

Package and Commercial Auto

Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....

Progressive Offers Commercial Auto in Dakotas

Mar 1 2004 // The Mayfield Village, Ohio-based Progressive group of insurance companies, the country’s number one monoline commercial auto insurer, has announced plans to start selling its commercial auto product in both North and...

Meeting the Challenge of Department of Motor Vehicles Reporting

Feb 9 2004 // Today, more than 20 states—and the number keeps rising—require insurance companies to report vehicle insurance information to their department of motor vehicles (DMV). The states want the information to enforce laws...

No Brake Yet for Personal & Commercial Auto

Feb 9 2004 // The auto insurance market has come a long way since Travelers wrote the first third-party policy for Gilbert J. Loomis’s one-cylinder car in 1897. “I’ll never insure a gasoline can on wheels,”...

Commercial Auto Program

Jan 12 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade/Amstar is offering a commercial auto program for any size truck. Dollars: $500 minimum deductible for liability, $250 minimum for physical damage. Policy limits of up to $1 million CSL. Carrier:...

Pa. Man Charged in Arson-for-Hire Fraud Scam

Jan 12 2004 // Authorities in New Jersey have charged Robert Halpin, 23, of Horsham, Pa., with two counts of arson for hire, conspiracy, aggravated arson, arson to collect insurance proceeds and attempted theft by deception for...